March 29, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Not "The Well": Radclyffe Hall’s Unpublished Short Fiction Dr. Jana Funke, Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, U.K., visited the Ransom Center on a Hobby Family Foundation Fellowship in July and August 2010 to work on Radclyffe Hall’s short fiction. She is using the material she gathered for a monograph exploring the relationship between modernist sexualities… read more
January 4, 2011, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Elizabeth Bowen and the Discourse of Propaganda Stefania Porcelli of Libera Università- San Pio V in Rome, Italy, recently visited the Ransom Center on an Alfred A. and Blanche W. Knopf fellowship to research the Elizabeth Bowen collection. She shares some of her findings. With the support of an Alfred A. and Blanche W. Knopf fellowship, I… read more
December 8, 2009, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Fannie Hurst and Diets Before the Atkins, South Beach, and Cabbage Soup diets was the Hollywood Eighteen Day Diet from the 1920s, which demanded fewer than 600 calories per day. One of its earliest practitioners was American novelist Fannie Hurst, who wrote extensively about her weight loss struggles in the early 20th century, when… read more